Wrote this a long time ago. Too short for an article:
Perverted - Hentai in Japanese. But the word pervert means
deviation from normal or accepted. So, how can all guys be
perverts?

Did you ever notice that the sex scene in the movie is generally
at about the same realative place as the guitar solo in a song?

SonMay Records - are they bootlegs?
2007-12-13

This is quite interesting. I was always told that SonMay Records productions
were bootlegs, however I have found internet evidence in more than one place
that this is not true.

Ok, there's this thing about Bootleg Anime, it doesn't just include the Anime
itself, but tons of other items, CDs, shirts, bags, figures, etc, etc, etc....

There are a couple companies out there making bootleg anime sound tracks and it
would appear that SonMay Records is not one of them. From the information I've
found ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_May ) which I've found reference to
elsewhere, SonMay "SM" anime CDs are legit. However they have been imported
into the US in defiance of possible licensing laws. The thing is SonMay has
and does pay for the rights to press these disks. But the license only applies
to SonMay's native country (Taiwan).

So it depends on how you look at it. Personally I feel that if I buy a DVD in
the US or have someone buy it for me and then I travel to (or have someone
send it) to another country, it should be perfectly legit. Why would it be
wrong for me to buy a CD in Taiwan (or have someone buy one for me and send
it here)? This is where the whole DVD region coding thing comes up, because
the companies want to sell DVDs only to certain places.

So it turns out I don't have a problem with the SM CDs and although their
production quality is not on par with the Japanese versions, it seems rather
close. And as the rights money goes back to Japan to make the way for more
Anime, that makes me happy.

This still leaves a whole lot of illegitimate Pirates out there. EverAnime,
f/x (for anime), etc, etc, etc. They are bad for Anime. They steal the ink
out of the artist''s pen.

Here is a link to a site that has an in-depth discussion although they
incorrectly list SonMay as a bootlegger. I could tell you many of these tips
myself, but they went to the trouble of writing them all up. Personally I can
almost always buy anime off of ebay without getting bootlegs, but I'm old and
wise. Read this article and you'll be a little bit older and a whole lot wiser.

These links are dead!
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